The 2015/16 Berkshire Hellenic Premier League: And the winner is..

Last year you might rememeber, Duds and I ran a Berkshire mini-league looking at who would have one a theoretical ‘Berkshire Hellenic Premier League‘ taking into account matches between clubs in the division.

We did it as part of the bracknelltownfc.com web team. Bracknell won it. Awkward.

Quite rightly we took a bit of stick for pointing this out but we genuinely didn’t know who the winner would be when we came up with the idea, and in fairness Duds then went back and looked at the previous five seasons. Needless to say Bracknell weren’t even close due to usually being wretched in Berkshire derbies – and Wokingham fans will attest to this given one of their three wins this past season came from.. well Bracknell.

So having written this pre-piece ahead of actually doing the maths, we eagerly await the outcome. Can Bracknell retain the title? Can Binfield add to their two triumphs so far? Or will Wokingham or Highmoor have done enough. At this point of the writing process we really don’t know.

First, the rules.

The table is only calculated on results between teams in Hellenic Premier League matches. Qualifying criteria for the league is playing the full season in the Uhlsport Hellenic Premier Division.

With that in mind, lets do the maths…

This seasons competition see’s six teams play 30 games through the 2015/16 Uhlsport Hellenic Premier League season to give us our final table.

And now, drum roll please. The final table:

Berks HPL table 15/16

Pld

W

D

L

GF

GA

GD

PTS

Actual HPL Pos

Thatcham Town

10

7

3

0

28

9

19

24

2

Ascot United

10

7

1

2

20

8

12

22

4

Binfield

10

5

2

3

21

14

7

17

8

Highmoor-IBIS

10

2

2

6

11

18

-7

8

11

Bracknell Town

10

2

2

6

14

24

-10

8

14

Wokingham & Emmbrook

10

1

2

7

18

26

-8

5

20

So Thatcham Town are the 2015/16 Berkshire champions.

Actually that’s all quite predictable really. The table finished in the order the teams finished in the league.

That wasn’t the case last season when Bracknell won our title despite three teams finishing higher than them in the actual Hellenic Premier table. Reasons? Two extra teams in the league meaning an extra four games per side perhaps. Newbury finished mid-table despite a relegation spot in the real world.

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Tom is the co-editor of FootballinBracknell. He has played at the lowest possible level of football. In real life Tom works for Trinity Mirror. Manager of Binfield Ladies in the Thames Valley Women's League.